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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Suwalki I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Suwalki
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Suwalki "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Suwalki
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Suwalki Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Suwalki
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Suwalki There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Suwalki
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Suwalki That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Suwalki
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Suwalki The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Suwalki
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Suwalki He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Suwalki
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Suwalki If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Suwalki
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Suwalki "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Suwalki
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Suwalki A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Suwalki
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Suwalki "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Suwalki
